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In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

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Hope Solo
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: July 30
Association Football Player
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Soccer Player
Richland
Washington
Hope Amelia Solo
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I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands.
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Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.
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I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.
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One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.
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I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.
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It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.
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Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.
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I always just had a dream to spend more time with my father. But at the end of the day, my mom was the one who kept me in soccer,who kept me doing my homework, who provided me with meals on a daily basis.
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L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.
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I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.
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My life is a beautiful struggle.
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My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.
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It's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt.
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My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.
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On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.
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It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.
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My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
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It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.
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When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.
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I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.
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